M58 Skelmersdale and Up Holland Bypass

Skelmersdale and Up Holland Bypass
Opened
Current route
M58
Start point
4
Glenburn Road
End point
6
Orrell
Original route
A506

This scheme saw the existing A506 Regional Road upgraded to motorway.

Road scheme and chronology data is courtesy SABRE (where much of it was gathered by member Ross Spur), with additional data from the UK Motorway Archive, the Scottish Roads Archive and the Northern Ireland Roads Site.

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The road that made no sense

It was the UK's only single-carriageway motorway, and twenty years ago it ceased to exist. This is the story of the strange fascination it held, and of my place in history.

The forever bottleneck, part 2

The second part of the story, where we learn why exactly the M4 gets narrower on the final approach to Europe’s biggest city.

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